Better to Undermine Iran’s Nuclear Program Than to Conclude Another Bad Deal
The lesson of recent explosions.
July 14, 2020
After Arriving at the Sea of Galilee, a Group of Early Hasidim Encountered Plague
Past and present fused uncannily in the rabbis’ thoughts.
In 1777, Rabbi Menaḥem Mendel of Vitebsk, the foremost leader of the still-young ḥasidic movement in what is now Belarus, set off with 30 of his followers and their families for the Land of Israel. Among his fellow travelers was another prominent Belarusian ḥasid, Abraham Katz of Kalisk, famous for his fits of wild prayerful ecstasy. They arrived—after an arduous six-month journey over land and sea—in Safed, which two centuries before had been an international capital of Kabbalah. A few years later they relocated to Tiberias, a city with its own rabbinic tradition dating to the 1st century CE. Yitzhak Melamed tells their story:
July 14, 2020
Remembering the Great African American Leaders Who Were Also Zionists
Rosa Parks, Bayard Rustin, and the “opiate of the Arabs.”
Turning the Hagia Sofia into a Mosque Is Both Wrong and Imprudent—and It Should Worry Israel
“The resurrection of Aya Sofia heralds the liberation of the al-Aqsa Mosque.”
The Supreme Court Delivers Another Victory for the Founders’ Vision of Religious Liberty
Government entities in the U.S. still threaten to impose their orthodoxy on dissenters.
After Arriving at the Sea of Galilee, a Group of Early Hasidim Encountered Plague
Past and present fused uncannily in the rabbis’ thoughts.